PROVIDENCE, it is said, takes special care of small children and idiots. Perhaps it's time to add Bermuda to this exclusive list. For the island's relative prosperity, relative tranquillity and relative racial calm (which, while still far from ideal,...
When Renee Bullock-Cann was first offered the opportunity to train in New York City for a top level management position at HSBC Bank of Bermuda, she was faced with having to leave her husband Paul Cann for more than 18 months.
Luckily, Mr. Cann who w...
Bungled investigation
July 5, 2006
Dear Sir,
Who ran the detective department responsible for the investigation of the murder of Rebecca Middleton ?
It won?t go away
July 4, 2006
Dear Sir,
I have been reading the articles about Rebecca Middleton you ...
Last weekend?s July 4th celebration brought a whole new approach to being a good neighbour when it donated 2,000 meals to prisoners and the Salvation Army on Saturday.
Spectacular fireworks that lit up the sky above Moresby Plain on Ireland Island, d...
Bungled investigationJuly 5, 2006Dear Sir,Who ran the detective department responsible for the investigation of the murder of Rebecca Middleton — Inspector Clouseau?
JIM REITH
Toronto, Ontario
It won’t go awayJuly 4, 2006Dear Sir,I have been reading...
Independence and visasJune 22, 2006
Dear Sir,Recent articles (such as the one in the June 20 issue of The Royal Gazette, “Citizenship and the Independence question”), attempt to downplay the problems of obtaining visas for passport holders from tiny ...
Independence and visas
June 22, 2006
Dear Sir,
Recent articles (such as the one in the June 20 issue of ?Citizenship and the Independence question?), attempt to downplay the problems of obtaining visas for passport holders from tiny countries. The au...
CAN it actually get any worse than it is? Bermuda's inability to uphold the checks and balances of a functioning democracy have been picked up by overseas media and we look pretty incompetent. I refer, of course, to the Auditor General's office fiasc...
WITH the latest flare-up of violence between the Palestinians and the state of Israel, we are once again seeing a modern version of the Indian wars that took place on the North American continent in the 19th century when settlers of European descent ...
June 23, 2006THERE are other ways of trying to “Keep up with the Joneses” or copying others which are just as destructive as those commented on this week by your columnist Alvin Williams. Recently, President George Bush once again reminded Americans ...
